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From: pjs@ARISTOTLE-GW.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: "This space for rent" on Mir
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Date: 30 Mar 89 17:40:03 GMT
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I just heard on the radio that you can now buy advertising space on Mir
(a couple of years ago I would have assumed it was an April Fool's joke).
You can buy a patch on a cosmonaut's spacesuit, or a 2-lb cargo that you can
proclaim "has flown in space", or an ad on the Mir hull, or a billboard at
the Baikonur launch pad.  It boggles the mind.  I wonder if they'll consider
inserting promos for sponsors in the voice links?  "Comrade, the Bulova
time is 00:30 Zulu..."

Peter Scott (pjs@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov)